State now requiring physicals for kids in 6th grade
By Amy F. Reiter
Friday July 4, 2008
Along with moving into a bigger school building, with taller kids and thicker textbooks, sixth-graders will be facing one more rite of passage: a school physical.
The Illinois General Assembly has decided that instead of fifth-graders having to get school physicals – along with incoming kindergartners and ninth-graders – sixth-graders should get them instead.
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